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Interviews with Caribou Barbie are rarer than Gun Loons who can see their feet.

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Q: Why should the US elect Senator McCain?
A: McCain has a great plan to get caught up in this evil, in this nation at this time. It is from God. What I think it was AIG, important call there, though, because of the day are going to be vigilant. We have got to look at track records and see who’s more apt to be vigilant. We have trade missions back and forth. We we do it’s very important to us and they don’t flag, you know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and say go off and travel the world.

George “Macaca” Allen to head up Virginia GOP “Minority Outreach.”

Sometimes, parody writes itself.

What happens when a teenager from Australia suggests gun control is a good idea? You get Jon C. Sullivan, intrepid gunblogger and professional idiot, on the case. Here’s what said Aussie teenager had the audacity to write:

2. Re. Gun Control: I support gun control because it is proven to bring safety to communities. I live in a place with strong gun control measures, and cannot imagine living without it. I just cannot imagine someone walking on the streets carrying a gun and me walking besides them and feeling safe.

Does Jon C. Sullivan hit back with well-reasoned arguments? Not exactly:

Well, first off, the author of this nonsense hails from Australia itself, so that would explain where at least some of the lack of education is coming from, so let us start there, using information garnered from that ex-penal-colony.

Given the fact 53% of adult Tennesseans have difficulty with basic reading skills, Jon-Boy should really not pass judgment on educational prowess.

Sully then tries to analyze Austrailian crime rates. Hilarity ensues, as Sully admits assault and robbery figures haven’t changed much at all. And homicides rates are…ummm..down in Australia.

Failing to “prove” his case empirically, Sully goes for the anecdote:

I have been lawfully carrying a firearm for the past three weeks. In that time, I have interacted with, passed, and been within about 20 feet of hundreds, if not thousands of different individuals. Have any of those people felt any less safe because I was carrying a firearm? Well, given that effectively none of them actually knew I was armed, something tells me to doubt it.

Jeebus, one wonders how Jon C. Sullivan musters enough brain activity to stand upright.

Update: Commenter “J”: “Reduced to picking apart the blog postings of teenagers, huh?

Must be awesome having that much free time on your hands. “

Indeed, J. Jon C. Sullivan is 26 years old.

Caribou Barbie:

McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Fannie and Freddie had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” The companies, however, aren’t taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.

C’mon. Let’s give Sarah Plain&Scripted a break on this. After all, it’s not like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been in the news lately.

Seriously, this is the same pride in ignorance we’ve seen from George W. Bush.

You know, environmental, tree-hugging nancy-pants have always amused me… They go on and on about this little world we live on, and yet we are making a gorramed disaster of just about every orbital trajectory overhead. Some day, we are going to have to leave this forsaken rock, and that is going to be a pain in the ever-loving heinie at the rate we are going.

Jon C. Sullivan (aka “Linoge”), from the world’s dumbest website.

When Sullivan moved to Tennessee, he dropped that state’s collective IQ several points.

So said John “Bluto” Blutarsky.

Sarah Palin might have said, “Five colleges in six years.”

She began college at Hawaii Pacific University, a private, nonsectarian school in Honolulu. She attended only as a freshman during the fall of 1982, school spokeswoman Crystale Lopez said.

Then known as Sarah Louise Heath, she was in the business administration program as a full-time student, Lopez said.

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From Hawaii Pacific, Palin transferred to North Idaho College, a two-year school in Coeur d’Alene, about 30 miles east of Spokane. She attended the college as a general studies major for two semesters, in spring 1983 and fall 1983, spokeswoman Stacy Hudson said.

“We were not able to track down club affiliations or anything,” Hudson said.

The school identified one of her professors but he did not remember her, Hudson said.

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From North Idaho College, Palin transferred 70 miles south to the University of Idaho, the state’s flagship institution. She majored in journalism with an emphasis in broadcast news. She attended Idaho, whose mascot is the Vandals, from fall 1984 to spring 1985.

She then returned to Alaska to attend Matanuska-Susitna College in Palmer in fall 1985.

Then she returned to Idaho, for spring 1986, fall 1986 and spring 1987, when she graduated. Despite her journalism degree, she does not appear to have worked for the college newspaper or campus television station, school officials said. She worked briefly as a sportscaster for KTUU in Anchorage after she graduated college.

Hmmmm……

No, not the sammwich. Though it certainly would be in the running.

We’re talking about gunloon Kevin Baker’s all-time favorite VP candidate and NRA covergirl, Sarah Palin.

Of course, Baker’s judgment often fails him badly. Well, it fails him almost always.

Let us review; in the nearly 5 days since Ms. Palin entered the national limelight, we’ve learned:

Palin has been embroiled in a TrooperGate–where she abused her powers as Governor to fire the state police chief and replaced him with a crony who was forced to resign two weeks later for sexual harrassment.

Palin and her husband, Todd, were members of lunatic fringe group –the Alaskan Independence Party–whose mission is to have Alaska secede from the US.

Palin promotes abstinence-only educational programs. That hasn’t worked out so well for daughter, Bristol. Here’s Prince Charming.

Palin was for the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ before she was against it.

As Mayor of tiny Wasilla, AK, Palin wanted to find out how she could ban books.

As Mayor of tiny Wasilla, AK, she managed to leave office with the city $22M in debt. She came into office with a surplus.

The Pallins, co-owners of an Anchorage car wash, lost their business license for failing to pay the required state fees.

Promoted as a clean Government reformer, Palin was Ted Steven’s 527 director.